[HTML][HTML] Genetics of human cardiovascular disease

S Kathiresan, D Srivastava - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Cardiovascular disease encompasses a range of conditions extending from myocardial
infarction to congenital heart disease, most of which are heritable. Enormous effort has been …

Innate lymphoid cells: emerging insights in development, lineage relationships, and function

H Spits, T Cupedo - Annual review of immunology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) are immune cells that lack a specific antigen receptor yet can
produce an array of effector cytokines that in variety match that of T helper cell subsets. ILCs …

IL-33–responsive lineage− CD25+ CD44hi lymphoid cells mediate innate type 2 immunity and allergic inflammation in the lungs

KR Bartemes, K Iijima, T Kobayashi… - The Journal of …, 2012 - journals.aai.org
Innate immunity provides the first line of response to invading pathogens and a variety of
environmental insults. Recent studies identified novel subsets of innate lymphoid cells that …

Interleukin-1α controls allergic sensitization to inhaled house dust mite via the epithelial release of GM-CSF and IL-33

MAM Willart, K Deswarte, P Pouliot, H Braun… - Journal of Experimental …, 2012 - rupress.org
House dust mite (HDM) is one of the most common allergens worldwide. In this study, we
have addressed the involvement of IL-1 in the interaction between HDM and the innate …

[HTML][HTML] Lung eQTLs to help reveal the molecular underpinnings of asthma

K Hao, Y Bossé, DC Nickle, PD Paré, DS Postma… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified loci reproducibly associated with
pulmonary diseases; however, the molecular mechanism underlying these associations are …

Genome-wide association analysis identifies three new breast cancer susceptibility loci

M Ghoussaini, O Fletcher, K Michailidou, C Turnbull… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women. To date, 22 common breast
cancer susceptibility loci have been identified accounting for∼ 8% of the heritability of the …

Genome-wide association study in Han Chinese identifies four new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

X Lu, L Wang, S Chen, L He, X Yang, Y Shi, J Cheng… - Nature …, 2012 - nature.com
We performed a meta-analysis of 2 genome-wide association studies of coronary artery
disease comprising 1,515 cases and 5,019 controls followed by replication studies in 15,460 …

Pediatric and adult eosinophilic esophagitis: similarities and differences

A Straumann, SS Aceves, C Blanchard, MH Collins… - Allergy, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Early in the 1990s, several case series described adults suffering from dysphagia and
children with refractory reflux symptoms, both accompanied by an eosinophil‐predominant …

Innate lymphoid cells responding to IL-33 mediate airway hyperreactivity independently of adaptive immunity

HY Kim, YJ Chang, S Subramanian, HH Lee… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Asthma has been considered an immunologic disease mediated by TH2
cells and adaptive immunity. However, clinical and experimental observations suggest that …

Genome-wide association study to identify genetic determinants of severe asthma

YI Wan, NRG Shrine, MS Artigas, LV Wain, JD Blakey… - Thorax, 2012 - thorax.bmj.com
Background The genetic basis for developing asthma has been extensively studied.
However, association studies to date have mostly focused on mild to moderate disease and …